And because of its sudden notoriety, the Hell-Fire Club had to move from the abbey at Medmenham to a hidden warren of Gothic catacombs Sir Francis created at his nearby estate, some 30 miles north-west of London.

He lived in dangerous times, so he constructed several secret passageways and catacombs underneath the city and inside the castle.

Badgers actually live together in large underground catacombs called ‘setts.’